| Date Performance |
1979-00-00 | | Running Time |
4:26 | | Performers |
Tom Petty (Lead Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Piano), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Organ), Ron Blair (Electric Bass Guitar), Stan Lynch (Drums), Stan Lynch (Percussion), Tom Petty (Produced By), Jimmy Iovine (Produced By), Shelly Yakus (Engineered By), Shelly Yakus (Mixed By) | | Comments | Recorded at: Sound City, Van Nuys, CA and Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA. Mixed at: Record Plant, New York, NY (MCA Records) A sort of - maybe unintentional - sub-text of Damn the Torpedoes was that the characters in the songs were heroicly pursuing women who perhaps did not want to be pursued. At least by these characters. "'Shadow of a Doubt' was just the band bashing in the studio," Mike says. "I don't think we spent a lot of time on that. It was pretty live." "Shelly Yakus made a huge contribution to all of those records," Tom says. "He's a somewhat legendary engineer. He taught us so much. He's a little older than us and therefore commanded a little more respect. He was just tireless. He would constantly be hooking up another amp. Shelly actually worked on the Big Pink album. He did Alice Cooper, Grand Funk, 'Don't Fear the Reaper,' John Lennon. Every day we'd say, 'Name another hit you worked on, Shelly!' On 'Don't Do Me Like That' there's a Vox organ with an unusual vibrato on it. Shelly showed us how to take a piece of tape, make it thick, and stick it on the tape recorder that was making the delay so you got an intermittant signal as it went by, causing a telegraph sound. Shelly could always think of ways to make unusual sounds." | | Appears On | |
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